 They moved to the suburbs after the husband, Dick, got a job at a nuclear power plant; he works there in order to cause an explosion one day that will rid the world of humans and leave bugs in peace.But after a while they drift from all-American family normalities — the son, Johnny, a strait-laced A student, begins listening to heavy metal and becomes a junkie; Richard and his wife, Jane, drift away from each other, he having an affair at work and she becoming attached to her credit card; lastly the daughter, Sally, becomes a pregnant lesbian after being raped by a jock from the high school; and also a pet giant shapeshifting fly, Spot, who disguises as a dog.They each show their true bug form at least once in the film